"Domhnall Mitchell begins by focusing on three historical phenomena - the railroad, the Dickinson Homestead, and horticulture - and argues that poems about trains, home, and flowers engage with their meanings in ways that extend beyond the confines of the aesthetic. He shows how Dickinson's poems and letters reveal the full complexity of her position as a woman situated within a larger social and economic class."--Jacket.Leer más

The train, the father, his daughter, and her poem: "I like to see it lap the miles" --
"Homeless at home": the politics and poetics of domestic space --
Housing possibilities: Dickinson and the institution of culture --
"A little taste, time, and means": Dickinson and flowers --
Letters from home: Dickinson and publication --
Gathering buds: Dickinson's autograph anthologies --
Revising the script: Dickinson's manuscripts --
Cordoning off dissent: Dickinson's monologic voices --
Passages of meaning: "Safe in their alabaster chambers."

Responsabilidad:

Domhnall Mitchell.

Resumen:

This text challenges some of the more pious views of Emily Dickinson. The author examines her background, letters and poems from a social, cultural and historical perspective, and presents a more complex portrait of Dickinson and her work.Leer más